Wednesday, 2nd April 2025, 1:28 p.m.
Ria de Alvor--Meia-praia, Lagos, Faro, Portugal
Jessé Roy-Drainville
3 | Common ScoterMelanitta nigra |
1 | Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufa |
120 | Feral PigeonColumba livia (Feral Pigeon) |
25 | Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto |
1 | Common/Pallid SwiftApus apus/pallidus |
3 | Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola |
3 | Common Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticula |
5 | WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus |
1 | Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucos |
10 | Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres |
4 | SanderlingCalidris alba |
2 | Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus |
6 | Audouin's GullIchthyaetus audouinii |
21 | Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellis |
115 | Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus Moving west all day. Counted until 80 then estimate. |
93 | Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis 73 moving west on the beach and 20 perched on the banks |
1 | tern sp.Sterninae sp. |
13 | Northern GannetMorus bassanus |
2 | Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carbo |
40 | Little EgretEgretta garzetta At least. Colony nesting in the tall pine trees here : 37.126808,-8.631347. |
2 | Common KestrelFalco tinnunculus |
4 | Common MagpiePica pica |
1 | Great TitParus major |
5 | Crested LarkGalerida cristata |
3 | Zitting CisticolaCisticola juncidis |
10 | Barn SwallowHirundo rustica |
1 | Sardinian WarblerCurruca melanocephala |
2 | Spotless StarlingSturnus unicolor |
10 | Eurasian BlackbirdTurdus merula |
2 | European StonechatSaxicola rubicola |
30 | House SparrowPasser domesticus |
1 | Corn BuntingEmberiza calandra |